FAQ Project Plan 365
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What is Unique ID field?
What is Unique ID field?
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The Unique ID field contains the number that Project automatically designates whenever a new task, resource, or assignment is created in the current project.
What is Type field?
What is Type field?
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The Type field provides choices that control the effect that editing work, assignment units, or duration has on the calculations of the other two fields.
What is top-down organize method?
What is top-down organize method?
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Organize tasks using the top-down method, you identify the major phases first and then break the phases down into individual tasks.
The top-down method gives you a version of the plan as soon as you decide on the major phases.
What is the risk field?
What is the risk field?
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The Risk field is a custom field (of type Outline Code) that offers you the possibility to specify the risk level of a certain task. You can choose which custom field to be used as Risk field in the Options dialog.
How to change the Risk field?
How to change the Risk field?
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You can choose which custom field to be used as the Risk field in the Options dialog.
What is Text1-30 field?
What is Text1-30 field?
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The Text1 through Text30 fields store any text information that you want to include in your project about tasks, resources, or assignments.
What is Text Above field?
What is Text Above field?
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The Text Above field indicates where text on the subtask Gantt bars appears when rolled up to the summary task bar.
What is TeamStatus Pending field?
What is TeamStatus Pending field?
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The TeamStatus Pending field indicates whether you've received a response to a progress request you've sent to a resource about assigned tasks.
What is Team Assignment Pool field?
What is Team Assignment Pool field?
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The Team Assignment Pool field shows whether the current resource is a team resource.
What is TCPI field?
What is TCPI field?
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The TCPI (to complete performance index) field shows the ratio of the work remaining to be done to funds remaining to be spent, as of the status date.
What is Task Summary Name field?
What is Task Summary Name field?
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The Task Summary Name field contains the names of the summary tasks for the task associated with a resource assignment.
What is Task Outline Number field?
What is Task Outline Number field?
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The Task Outline Number field contains the number that represents the associated task's position in the hierarchical outline structure.
What is Task Name field?
What is Task Name field?
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The Task Name field contains the name of the task to which an assignment belongs.
What is Task ID field?
What is Task ID field?
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The Task ID field contains the number that Project assigns to each task as you add it to the project.
What is Task Finish field?
What is Task Finish field?
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The Finish field shows the date when a task is scheduled to be completed.
What is Task Calendar GUID field?
What is Task Calendar GUID field?
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The Task Calendar GUID field contains the generated unique identification codes for each task calendar in your project. No two task calendars will have the same Task Calendar GUID.
What is Task Calendar field?
What is Task Calendar field?
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The Task Calendar field lists all calendars available to be applied to a task.
What is SV Percent (%) field?
What is SV Percent (%) field?
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The SV% (schedule variance percent) field shows the ratio of schedule variance (SV) to budgeted cost of work scheduled (BCWS), expressed as a percentage.
What is SV field?
What is SV field?
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The SV (earned value schedule variance) field shows the difference in cost between the current progress and the baseline plan of a task, all assigned tasks of a resource, or for an assignment up to the status date or today's date.
What is Summary Progress field?
What is Summary Progress field?
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The Summary Progress field shows the progress on a summary task, based on the progress of its subtasks and where these subtasks have been scheduled.
What is Summary field?
What is Summary field?
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The Summary field indicates whether a task is a summary task.
What is Successors field?
What is Successors field?
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The Successors field lists the task ID numbers for the successor tasks to a task.
What is Subproject Read Only field?
What is Subproject Read Only field?
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The Subproject Read Only field indicates whether the subproject of this task is a read-only project.
What is Subproject File field?
What is Subproject File field?
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The Subproject File field contains the name of a project inserted into the active project file.
What is Stop field?
What is Stop field?
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The Stop field shows the date that represents the end of the actual portion of a task.
